Abstract
Pygmy Populations Seronegative for Marburg Virus
Highlights
To the Editor: A serosurvey was conducted in Durba, a mining village near Watsa, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) outbreaks in 1994 and 1998–2000 (1–3)
We conducted a seroprevalence study to verify whether pygmies living in the Watsa area constitute another population at risk for primary transmission of Marburg virus (MBGV)
Serum samples were considered positive only if they were positive for Marburg IgG in both enzymelinked immunosorbent assay and indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) (1)
Summary
To the Editor: A serosurvey was conducted in Durba, a mining village near Watsa, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) outbreaks in 1994 and 1998–2000 (1–3). We hypothesized that the MBGV reservoir’s habitat might not be limited to gold mines around Durba, but may exist in caves or forests in the wider Watsa area. We conducted a seroprevalence study to verify whether pygmies living in the Watsa area constitute another population at risk for primary transmission of MBGV.
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